The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan | Page 9

The mollah Nadân gives an account of his new scheme for raising
money, and for making men happy.
CHAPTER LIV
Hajji Baba becomes a promoter of matrimony, and of the register he
keeps.
CHAPTER LV
Of the man Hajji Baba meets, thinking him dead; and of the marriage
which he brings about.
CHAPTER LVI
Showing how the ambition of the mollah Nadân involves both him and
his disciples in ruin.

CHAPTER LVII
Hajji Baba meets with an extraordinary adventure in the bath, which
miraculously saves him from the horrors of despair.
CHAPTER LVIII
Of the consequences of the adventure, which threaten danger, but end
in apparent good fortune.
CHAPTER LIX
Hajji Baba does not shine in honesty--The life and adventures of the
mollah Nadân.
CHAPTER LX
Hajji and the mollah make plans suited to their critical situation,
showing that no confidence can exist between rogues.
CHAPTER LXI
The punishment due to Hajji Baba falls upon Nadân, which makes the
former a staunch predestinarian.
CHAPTER LXII
Hajji Baba hears an extraordinary sequel to his adventure in the bath,
and feels all the alarms of guilt.
CHAPTER LXIII
He is discovered and seized, but his good stars again befriend and set
him free.
CHAPTER LXIV

He reaches Bagdad, meets his first master, and turns his views to
commerce.
CHAPTER LXV
He purchases pipe-sticks, and inspires a hopeless passion in the breast
of his old master’s daughter.
CHAPTER LXVI
He becomes a merchant, leaves Bagdad, and accompanies a caravan to
Constantinople.
CHAPTER LXVII
Hajji Baba makes a conquest of the widow of an emir, which at first
alarms, but afterwards elates him.
CHAPTER LXVIII
He obtains an interview with the fair Shekerleb, makes a settlement
upon her, and becomes her husband.
CHAPTER LXIX
From a vender of pipe-sticks he becomes a rich Aga, but feels all the
inconvenience of supporting a false character.
CHAPTER LXX
His desire to excite envy lays the foundation of his disgrace--He
quarrels with his wife.
CHAPTER LXXI
He is discovered to be an impostor, loses his wife, and the wide world
is again before him.

CHAPTER LXXII
An incident in the street diverts his despair--He seeks consolation in the
advice of old Osman.
CHAPTER LXXIII
In endeavouring to gain satisfaction from his enemies he acquires a
friend--Some account of Mirza Firouz.
CHAPTER LXXIV
He becomes useful to an ambassador, who makes him a partaker of his
confidence.
CHAPTER LXXV
Of his first essays in public life, and of the use he was to his employer.
CHAPTER LXXVI
Hajji Baba writes the history of Europe and with his ambassador
returns to Persia.
CHAPTER LXXVII
The ceremony of receiving a Frank ambassador at the court is
described.
CHAPTER LXXVIII
Hajji is noticed by the grand vizier, and is the means of gratifying that
minister’s favourite passion.
CHAPTER LXXIX
Of the manner in which he turned his influence to use, and how he was

again noticed by the vizier.
CHAPTER LXXX
The conclusion--Misfortune seems to take leave of Hajji Baba, who
returns to his native city a greater man than when he first left.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Hajji shaves the camel-driver.
The chaoûsh tells what he will do when he meets the robbers.
Hajji’s master and the great Turkoman.
Hajji Baba bleeds the Banou.
Turcomans attack the caravanserai.
The prince’s tent-pitcher strikes Hajji over the mouth with his slipper.
Hajji carries the great water-sack.
The dervish slays the ape.
Hajji and the disguised Mohtesib.
Hajji receives the ferosles.
Hajji is cauterised for his sprain.
The shaving of the ass.
‘I pretended to receive a violent twitch.’
Hajji and Zeenab.
Hajji sings to Zeenab.

The khanum ill-treats Zeenab.
The procession of slaves before the Shah.
‘An explosion took place in the very room.’
‘I beheld her fair form in the air, falling down the giddy height.’
The two Russians drive back the Persians.
Death of Zeenab.
Hajji takes sanctuary.
The baked head.
‘“O mercy! mercy!” cried Kior Ali.’
‘To where the dead body of a Jew lay extended.’
Hajji’s father dying.
The diviner and the rice.
Hajji interviews the fair candidates for marriage.
The mock marriage.
The degradation of Hajji and the mollah.
Drowning of the mollah bashi.
Hajji in the mollah bashi’s house.
Hajji leaves the village hurriedly after collecting the money.
Hajji meets Osman Aga again.
The curing of Hajji Baba.

Shekerleb approaches Hajji.
Hajji curses Shekerleb and her relations.
Hajji disrobes.
Hajji relates his story to Mirza Firouz.
The British ambassadors and the Shah.

INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE

TO THE REV. DR. FUNDGRUBEN CHAPLAIN TO THE SWEDISH
EMBASSY AT THE OTTOMAN PORTE
ESTEEMED AND LEARNED SIR, You will be astonished to see
yourself addressed by one, of whose existence you are, perhaps,
ignorant, and whose name doubtless long since been erased from your
memory. But when I put you in mind of an English